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| 1528762059 | Declaration of Independence | the document recording the proclamation of the second Continental Congress (4 July 1776) asserting the independence of the colonies from Great Britain | 1 | |
| 1528762060 | Limited Government | Basic principle of American government which states that government is restricted in what it may do, and each individual has rights that government cannot take away | 2 | |
| 1528762061 | Unlimited Government | A government in which no limits are imposed on the ruler's authority. The leaders don't have to follow the same laws as everyone else. | 3 | |
| 1528762062 | Divine Rights of Kings | A theory that assumed that God appointed all monarchs to rule on his behalf. Therefore, any policy, decree, plan, or approach adopted by royalty could not be questioned or disobeyed. | 4 | |
| 1528762063 | Representative Democracy | A system of government in which citizens elect representatives, or leaders, to make decisions about the laws for all the people. | 5 | |
| 1528762064 | Autocracy | A government in which the ruler has unlimited power and uses it in an arbitrary manner. | 6 | |
| 1528762065 | Oligarchy | A government ruled by a few powerful people | 7 | |
| 1528762066 | Socialism | A system in which society, usually in the form of the government, owns and controls the means of production. | 8 | |
| 1528762067 | Communism | A political system in which the government owns all property and dominates all aspects of life in a country. | 9 | |
| 1528762068 | John Locke | (1632-1704) Political theorist who defended the Glorious Revolution with the argument that all people are born with certain natural rights to life, liberty, and property. | 10 | |
| 1528762069 | Adam Smith | (1723-90) Economist and philosopher, born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, E Scotland, UK. He studied at Glasgow and Oxford, lectured in Edinburgh, and became professor of logic at Glasgow (1751), but took up the chair of moral philosophy the following year. In 1776 he moved to London, where he published An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776), the first major work of political economy. This examined in detail the consequences of economic freedom, such as division of labour, the function of markets, and the international implications of a laissez-faire economy. His appointment as commissioner of customs in 1778 took him back to Edinburgh. | 11 |
